David McKelvie wrote:
> tsort = topological sort
[...]
> Anyhow, that's where tsort came from. To solve an old problem with
> the way the linker handled archive files, which has since been solved
> in different ways.
I'm aware that it served a purpose in seventies releases of UNIX.
That would be a good explanation if a legacy version was included in
some esoteric cross-platform-development package or other.
But no, the GNU Project decided that ptx and tsort needed to be
reimplemented and included in coreutils, a collection of "essential"
commandline tools that wasn't assembled in one package until 2003.
Maybe the decision was made by single transferable vote?
(Thanks, Alex! Any suggestions for ptx?)
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upper classes, but today even the children of the lower
classes perform no executions, and this is extreme negligence
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